Hard New Zealand art word search
Gretchen Albrecht, Shane Cotton and Don Binney join McCahon and Hodgkins, with gouache and impasto from the studio floor. Twenty-eight words in an eighteen by eighteen grid, hidden in all eight directions. For gallery lovers and art students.
- Brushstroke
- Canvas
- Don Binney
- Easel
- Exhibition
- Goldie
- Gouache
- Govett-Brewster
- Gretchen Albrecht
- Hodgkins
- Hotere
- Impasto
- Landscape
- Lindauer
- McCahon
- Michael Smither
- Palette
- Pat Hanly
- Pigment
- Portrait
- Printmaking
- Rita Angus
- Robin White
- Shane Cotton
- Still life
- Te Papa
- Watercolour
- Woollaston
This is the same puzzle as on the printable sheet. Every word you find turns green and is crossed off the list.
Make your own versionArt and painters, extra hard
Name
| E | O | R | E | H | T | I | M | S | L | E | A | H | C | I | M | X | O |
| D | C | E | W | L | M | I | R | G | L | G | G | O | L | D | I | E | Y |
| U | G | E | O | R | E | T | S | W | E | R | B | T | T | E | V | O | G |
| D | N | N | O | H | A | C | C | M | X | E | A | S | G | I | W | R | U |
| L | U | N | L | P | A | R | H | B | H | T | P | A | B | S | S | T | U |
| Y | E | N | L | A | H | E | O | C | I | C | A | P | R | E | O | K | E |
| L | R | E | A | L | B | U | D | B | B | H | P | M | C | F | T | E | T |
| N | I | P | S | E | K | A | G | P | I | E | E | I | L | I | I | U | I |
| A | T | A | T | T | S | D | K | I | T | N | T | A | K | L | K | D | A |
| H | A | C | O | T | A | N | I | G | I | A | W | N | N | L | L | O | R |
| T | A | S | N | E | V | I | N | M | O | L | A | H | P | L | E | N | T |
| A | N | D | R | I | N | L | S | E | N | B | F | E | I | I | S | B | R |
| P | G | N | I | K | A | M | T | N | I | R | P | O | L | T | A | I | O |
| E | U | A | T | F | C | E | O | T | X | E | A | E | R | S | E | N | P |
| B | S | L | A | R | N | O | T | T | O | C | E | N | A | H | S | N | R |
| F | D | B | N | K | P | B | R | U | S | H | S | T | R | O | K | E | H |
| H | V | R | U | O | L | O | C | R | E | T | A | W | U | R | L | Y | A |
| T | G | O | U | A | C | H | E | R | E | T | O | H | W | A | S | O | C |
Find these words
- Brushstroke
- Canvas
- Don Binney
- Easel
- Exhibition
- Goldie
- Gouache
- Govett-Brewster
- Gretchen Albrecht
- Hodgkins
- Hotere
- Impasto
- Landscape
- Lindauer
- McCahon
- Michael Smither
- Palette
- Pat Hanly
- Pigment
- Portrait
- Printmaking
- Rita Angus
- Robin White
- Shane Cotton
- Still life
- Te Papa
- Watercolour
- Woollaston
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About this word search
New Zealand painting runs from the colonial portraits of Goldie and Lindauer to the abstractions of Gretchen Albrecht. Don Binney painted native birds against the hard New Zealand light, Pat Hanly worked in bold colour, Shane Cotton draws on Māori history and imagery, and Michael Smither painted Taranaki with sharp realism. The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth, next to the Len Lye Centre, is known for contemporary art.
Eighteen by eighteen, with words in all eight directions, backwards too. Gretchen Albrecht is the longest at sixteen letters. Michael Smither and Govett-Brewster have fourteen, the hyphen dropped as GOVETTBREWSTER. Easel is only five letters, and Te Papa, Goldie, Hotere and Canvas six. Double T helps in Govett-Brewster, Shane Cotton and Palette. Still life gives you three L's in a row: STILLLIFE.
For an art history class or a book club on a wet weekend. Afterwards, everyone picks one artist they did not know and looks up a single work to show the others.
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